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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1986
Page
2
Iraq says its warplanes destroyed 29 Iranian ships and shot down two jet fighters. Iran reports forces within artillery range of a road linking Iraq with Kuwait as fighting continues along the Gulf.
The scaffolding is gone revealing a new torch and crown on the Statue of Liberty and a refreshed Great Hall roof at Ellis Island. Restoration continues despite the firing of Lee Iacocca from the federal Centennial Commission by Interior Secretary Hodel.
The North Island lighthouse at Winyah Bay, dating to the 1790s, will be automated on February 24 ending centuries of on site light keeping. The Coast Guard completes an automated beacon and decommissions Light Station Georgetown during a ceremony at Belle Isle Marina.
In Spartanburg County three dogs were found severely harmed and another had its tail cut off over three months. In Una, Feb 4, two dogs were found in a wooded area. one severely harmed the other tailless. Investigator Karen Carter noted no blood or additional injuries and found aerosol cans and a penny pressed into the tail-affected dog. She is probing religious significance of the penny and a teen-activity report of a dog’s head on a stick.
Orland Payne McCafferty, 58, of Lee's Summit Missouri, set fire to himself at a White House gate after a failed job search. He was hospitalized in critical condition in Baltimore after being rolled in the snow by bystanders who extinguished the flames. A letter in his car referenced government policies as motive.
A 32 year old Soviet seaman named Valeriy Polyanin rowed ashore in Aomori Japan and asked the Foreign Ministry to seek asylum in the United States. He was picked up by a Japanese fishing boat and held for Immigration Bureau processing while authorities decide his case.
AFL-CIO leaders in Bal Harbor launch a three month test program offering a MasterCard with 2 to 4 point lower rates than the typical 18.5 percent to entice 82 percent of wage earners without union cards to join. If successful, non members will be offered as associate members as the federation marks its 100th anniversary amid shrinking union participation from 35 percent postwar to 18 percent in 1985.
Oil prices retreat reversing earlier inflation pressure as gasoline gains fade from 1980s highs. Real gasoline costs show sharp swings since 1967 while heating oil lags behind. Analysts expect further price slides to lift the economy amid lingering impacts on food medical care and housing costs.
President Reagan denounced the federal welfare system as devastating families and human potential. He urged overhaul citing rising illegitimacy and incentives to stay on aid, pledging reforms tied to his forthcoming budget and a December report.
Harvard University student Stephen Gutwillig launches the Festival of Life a weeklong fundraiser beginning Monday to support AIDS research. The event features polticians scientists performers theater and exhibits and is backed by state and city leaders and Harvard officials.
In Schenectady New York authorities concluded five years of investigation into eight child deaths and a ninth child’s December death led to charging 43 year old Mary Beth Tinning with murder by smothering. Forensic work and exhumations may reveal the full scope of the killings.
Former South Carolina congressman John Jenrette, serving a 1985 sentence for taking a $50,000 bribe, may be released in May to the Alston Wilkes Home in Florence. He was denied parole last June and could reach his mandatory release date in September with this option. Noonan, warden aide, notes halfway house releases ease overcrowding.
The notice lists contact numbers for subscriptions and classifieds at the Aiken Standard. It provides customer service hours, office location at 124 Rutland Drive, and mailing address Box 456 Aiken SC 29802. Pricing shown includes four quoted amounts and a final value 08.80.
Emergency numbers provided by the Aiken Standard are listed for reader reference. The paper is published weekdays by Aiken Communications Inc. at P O Box 456 124 Rutland Drive Aiken SC 29802 with second class postage paid in Aiken SC.
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